One answer lies in the cosmopolitan nature of the periodic table. Chemists in Europe discovered most of the elements between about 1700 and 1900, and while certain countries had the intellectual ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has approved the name and symbols for four elements: nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og), respectively for ...

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.

Four new elements have been added to the standard periodic table and their creators from Japan, Russia and the United States will now come up with permanent names and symbols for them.

First 20 elements of the periodic table: This article provides a comprehensive list of the first 20 elements in the periodic table along with their atomic numbers and symbols.

I know in many classrooms if people say memorize, I used to say in my classroom memorize the names and symbols of the first 36 elements in the periodic table, the first assignment in my freshman ...

All of which go to show how the periodic table of elements has become the iconic symbol of science. Mark Lorch is professor of Science Communication and Chemistry at the University of Hull. This ...

The periodic table has been given four new elements, changing one of science’s most fundamental pieces of knowledge. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 will now be added to the table’s seventh row ...

In this periodic table of elements quiz, you have 10 minutes to name as many elements as you can, given only their symbol, atomic weight and the broad group they live in.